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When asked to respond to Yahoo Inc.’s decision to call all home-based employees back to the office, many WSJ readers came down in favor of workplace flexibility, arguing that they were more productive when working remotely. Read More »

More employees will be reporting to work at Yahoo Inc.’s headquarters soon.

Managers and workers are talking about Yahoo Inc.’s decision to call all home-based employees back to the office.

Some are cheering Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s decision to bring employees closer together, while others say the move is anything but hospitable to working parents. Inevitably, Donald Trump has weighed in, tweeting that Mayer “is right to expect Yahoo employees to come to the workplace vs. working at home. She is doing a great job!”

Whatever your take, the move, announced in a company memo last week by Yahoo’s human resources director, lays bare a little-discussed truth in many companies: Working remotely has some serious downsides. They range from less-trusting teams, a greater likelihood of communication gaps and, for workers, a blurred boundary between home and work.

Noting that some of the best insights arise from incidental encounters in the hall or around the coffee machine, the memo added that “speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” Read More »

Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute took your questions about balancing work and family in a live chat on July 18th, joined by WSJ Careers reporter Joann Lublin. Replay the event. Read More »

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